The Good Luck Suitcase
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I want to revisit the Good Luck Suitcase and review it's magical influence:
1. Whilst being driven home from another trip tonight, my driver and I avoided a fatal freeway pile-up by about 5 minutes...saw it through the rear mirror and read about it later...patted my suitcase sitting next to me
2. Monday -- last day in G-burg -- woke up to monsoon rains that magically stopped in time for
@peterT @War Horse @Frums and I to do some last minute exploring.
3. Again, it rained Sunday morning before Eric Wittenberg's last tour, but the sky broke and revealed a beautiful day for a tour.
4. At the end of
@cash 's tour on Friday later around 7:30pm, we stopped and walked around near Armistead's marker...and who should be standing on the knoll below the marker,
@MaryDee ? Ranger Matt Atkinson the "Dirty Dan Man"!!!!...sorry cash, but
THAT was the highlight of the tour!! I had mentioned before the trip to both cash and War Horse that I REALLY wanted to meet ranger Matt...and I did. PS he is as funny in real life as he is on the videos
5. When I took off from Harrisburg Airport, as we rolled down the runway, four coyotes escorted our planed just on the other side of the runway fence....they kept up for a while. very cool
6. I only had FIVE MINUTES to catch my next flight connection at O'Hare Airport in Chicago -- impending doom, because not only would I not have enough time, but I could no longer see well enough to read the gate marquee. By some crazy weather miracle
we arrived 40 minutes EARLY to our destination, and arrangements were made to escort me straight to my seat on the plane, early.
7. Finally, It has not rained for MONTHS in California where I live, and by some freak of weather....it rained that night as I was climbing into bed (or were those tears hitting the pillow?....Naw, I will bee back to G-burg in 9 mos)
PS Special Mention to
@Northern Light for being such a good sport when I started artillery shelling her little stick house during
@rpkennedy 's lecture